Push to punish XXX exes

Revenge-porn bill

Revenge porn isn’t currently a crime in the Big Apple — but the NYPD is backing a City Council bill that would make it one.

“These are real victims that we don’t have a tool on the books to actually assist,” NYPD Legislative Affairs Director Oleg Chernyavsky at testified Thursday at a City Council hearing on a bill that would make the heinous act a misdemeanor.

Under the new legislation, people who post intimate or sexually explicit images of others without their consent could be jailed for up to a year and fined as much as $1,000.

The bill covers “identifiable” images and videos with nudity or sexual activity if the disseminator has “the intention to cause economic, emotional or physical harm.”

“The spurned partner has a means to humiliate the other by sharing those intimate images with literally millions of strangers, as well as with the person’s family, neighbors, friends, employer and co-workers,” Chernyavsky said.

At the hearing, police described several appalling in- stances of revenge porn in which the perpetrators couldn’t be prosecuted, including:

A man uploaded naked pictures of his ex-wife to a Facebook account and also sent the snaps to their sons via text message.

A woman posted naked photos of her and her exhusband on social media, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. “She’s also sending him text messages with the pictures as well,” said Sgt. Frank Maiello, of the NYPD’s Domestic Violence Unit.

A man hacked into a social-media account belonging to the mother of his child so he could post “inappropriate pictures” of her. “He also sent their pictures to her family as well,” Maiello said. “His words to her were, ‘I’m going to continue to stalk you.’ ”

Brooklyn attorney Carrie Goldberg, who specializes in helping victims of revenge porn, said she hopes the council’s bill will get the ball rolling in Albany, where revenge-porn legislation has been languishing for three years.

“Lawmakers clearly don’t prioritize sexual privacy — there’s no other explanation,” she said.